Girl gets DUI trying to pick up brother from bar

Police say a 15-year-old girl was drunk when she came to pick her older brother up from a Winthrop Harbor bar because he was too intoxicated to drive himself home.

The girl, from Park City, was pulled over Monday night and told officers she was heading to the bar to give her 23-year-old brother a ride home from the bar, the Lake County News-Sun reported.

She was charged with DUI after registering a 0.139 blood-alcohol content level, and was also cited for not having a driver's license, illegal transportation of alcohol and illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor, police said.

The girl's brother was also charged with contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile, permitting an unlicensed person to drive intoxicated and illegal transportation of alcohol, the paper reported.